The Weekend Spill: A Whither Now? MAD Dartboard; The Online Tilley Watch: December 16 -20, 2019; From The Archives: 1984 “The New Yorker” Cartoonists Traveling Exhibit Poster

A Whither Now? MAD Dartboard MAD was in the news not long ago when it announced it was no longer going to turn out a brand new content-filled magazine, but rely instead on reprinting older material.  Now the folks at MAD have (sort of) given its readers a game of choice. The below graphic piece appears in the February 2020

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Two Podcasts Of Interest: Peter Kuper, Michael Shaw; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; A Daily Shouts By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Two Podcasts Of Interest Yet another terrif cartoonist interview by Gil Roth via his Virtual Memories podcast. Here he speaks with Peter Kuper (and not for the first time), who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Below: Mr. Kuper’s classic newyorker.com drawing, “Five Stages Of White House Employment.”   And…   Part One of the Michael Shaw interview

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The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online; New York Times Book Review Sketchbook Of Interest: Bob Eckstein

The Online Tilley Watch, December 9-13, 2019 An end of the week list of New Yorker artists* who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ander Andreades (twice this week), Ellis Rosen, Robert Leighton, Avi Steinberg. Daily Shouts: Tom Chitty (with Chloe Radcliffe), Avi Steinberg, Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s assistant cartoon editor), Jason Adam Katzenstein, Becky Barnicoat. …and from

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